[R] piped output in scan?

[Peter Whiting]

is there some way to execute a command and have the output piped to the scan command?

In gnuplot I might do something like: plot "<zcat data.gz|grep 9"

I would like to do something similar in R:

x<-scan(filename="<zcat data.gz|grep 9")

pete
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